GLOBALSOCIETY.AI - Key Persons
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- Member of the Honorary Board
- Founder of Yeditepe University
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- Founder CEO BK Partnership
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- Founder Chairwoman of Dorman Capital
Esen Tümer holds bachelor degree from İstanbul University on Linguistics, MBA degree on Business Management UCLA / University of California Los Angeles in USA .
She is Six Sigma Black Belt Certified in France and received several Leadership & Executive Management trainings from Ashridge College in United Kingdom and INSEAD in France. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning from Harvard University in Boston IoT training from Colombia University, New York.
She has more than 23 years of work experience in several global high tech companies with executive leadership roles such as; Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Tyco & Covidien, Philips Healthcare Royal Philips based in Turkey , Middle East Countries and USA. Also leading many international projects in United Kingdom, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Holland & United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Ms.Tümer has strong NGO background, she was the President of TıpGörDer, National Trade Association for 7 years representing Turkey in EU discussion in Brussels in Belgium. She acted as the vice president of PPP association and Vice president of TEID, Society of Corporate compliance and Ethics Association. She was the Chair of Medtronic Women Network in TWAL Region. She is one of the founder members of Women in Technology Association W-Tech and Women on Board Association. She is still active board member of several national & international associations including AAAI in USA and Women AI in Europe.
She has been selected as one of the Top 50 most successful women leaders among all industries across the country by Forbes and Economist Magazines and recognized the most powerful women CEO Ranked number 1 in Healthcare sector in consecutive years
As of 2020 she is the founder CEO of Essential Evolutions in Artificial Intelligence and InfiniTech in BioScience established in Turkey and USA . Besides acting as the executive advisory board member of smart wearable technology company in Manchester UK.
She is the founder of YZTD" Artificial intelligence & Technology Association" in Turkey affiliated with Global AAAI society.
1998 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi İngilizce İşletme Bölümü'nden mezun olan Fatih Yedikardeş iş hayatına Yönetici Adayı Programı dahilinde ilaç sektöründe Satış Temsilcisi olarak başladı. Hem global hem de lokal ilaç firmalarında Satış, Pazarlama, Satış Gücü Etkinliği, İş geliştirme, Satış Eğitim gibi farklı alanlarda farklı görevler aldı. 2019 yılından bu yana Japon İlaç Firması Daiichi Sankyo'nun Türkiye Genel Müdürü olarak çalışmaktadır.
Fatih Çağlıyan was born in 1973 in Karaman, and graduated from Bursa Anatolian High School in 1992, from Uludağ University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and from York University-Executive MBA-Finance in 2019.
Started his career in 1999, Tofaş Production, Engineering, Quality management in project areas have been found in Turkey and Italy Fiat factory.
He participated in the work representing the fields of Production and Industrialization in the PSA and Fiat Common vehicle Project in Italy.
In 2017, he won the Most Successful Tofaş People award in the category of innovative stars.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
- President of Galatasaray Education Foundation
Kemal Altuğ Özgün is a legal and compliance professional with more than 16 years' experience. He started his career as a practicing lawyer in Özgun law firm and then continued as in-house counsel in multinational organizations. He served as Legal Counsel and a Board member in Eastpharma (Deva Holding) then moved to medical devices sector in Beckman Coulter (a Danaher company) where he worked as Legal & Compliance Manager.
Altuğ continued his career as Head of Legal & Compliance at Sandoz (a Novartis division) where he focused primarily on legal department management, building, and fostering the ethical culture and compliance program. Later he decided to concentrate more on compliance and worked as an Ethics & Compliance Director in Astellas Pharma; a Japanese R&D pharmaceutical company where he recently joined Cetinkaya from. After a long and solid in-house experience, Altuğ accepted this new challenge to work in a dynamic and client focused environment and work in the legal sector to level the playing field for ethics and compliance.
His practice focuses on third party risk management, company law, labour law, healthcare regulations, anti-corruption law, employment law, white-collar crime, litigation, data privacy law, compliance, and competition law matters. He is a graduate of Marmara University and holds an LL.M. from Marmara University European Union Law Institute. He is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association and a board member of the Ethics & Reputation Society, where he also lectures Turkey's first and only "Ethics and Compliance Manager Certificate Program" for the eighth time, targeted to professionals from the Turkish business network.
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- Founding Member
- Managing Director of Afiniti Turkey
Lale Can is the Managing Director of Afiniti Turkey, responsible for business development. She has been working to establish the Afiniti Istanbul office since late 2017.
She graduated from Oxford University with a BA (honours) in Economics and Management in 2009 as a Domus Scholar, which was awarded to her for being academically in top 10 in her year group. She was part of the rowing team and strongly involved in the Oxford University European Affairs Society.
After graduating from Oxford, she worked in various roles in investment banking and asset management until 2017 in London and Geneva. Companies she worked in include Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. In her role at Ashcourt Rowan Asset Management in 2014, she was identified in the class of Top 30 under 30 by a top UK wealth management magazine, Citywire.
She got her MBA from INSEAD (France & Singapore) in 2015, where she received a women scholarship for outstanding leadership potential.
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- Finance
- Founding Member
- Deputy Chief Executive in ISBANK
Mr. Aran received his B.S in Computer Engineering in 1990, from the Middle East Technical University and his master's degree in Management (MBA) in 2001, from the Başkent University.
He began his career in 1990, in ISBANK as a junior software developer. Mr. Hakan Aran has been the Deputy Chief Executive in ISBANK, responsible for IT strategies, since 2008. With thirty years of experience in the Finance, Insurance, Telco and IT Industry, he has extensive knowledge in Operational Excellence, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and IT Management.
Mr. Aran has served in many group companies as a board member. He is the Chairman of SoftTech A.S. which is the biggest software company of Turkey with its 1.300 developers. In addition to the group companies, he is also member of the Technology Advisory Board Committee of the Mastercard.
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- Founding Member
- Vice President of Digital Innovation, Tazefikir Group / Entrepreneur and Founder of Crimson Consulting
He started his business life in the telecommunication field at Ulus Holding A.Ş. During his studies at Ulus Holding, he participated in one of Turkey's first GSM Projects "Alo Club", a project for picturing melodic messages. He was a member of the team in the entire IT service configuration process. After leaving Ulus Holding, he took an active role in TEB Communication for web projects, and then he joined Yeni Renk, one of Turkcell's affiliates for the production, management, and construction of many digital projects. In 2006, he founded Crimson Consulting in the field of business intelligence development and management and served many brands and institutions. During the same period, he was the Chief Information Officer of Simurg Yatırım.
He has been working as the Vice President of Innovation in the Tazefikir communication group since 2013.
Emin Erkan Korkmaz 1994 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü'nden mezun oldu. Yüksek lisans ve doktora derecelerini 1997 ve 2003 yıllarında Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü'nde aldı. Kanada'da bulunan Calgary Üniversitesi'nde doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak çalıştı. Emin Erkan Korkmaz şu anda Yeditepe Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmakta ve evrimsel hesaplama, makine öğrenmesi , doğal dil işleme gibi alanlarda araştırma yürütmektedir.
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- Member of the Board
- Energy
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- Founding Member
- CEO and Co - Founder of Tazi
Prof. Zehra Cataltepe is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tazi, one of four worldwide Gartner "Cool Vendor in AI Core Technologies" (May 2019). At Tazi, her aim is to help transform Machine Learning into a technology that can be used easily and useful for everyone.
After she got her Ph.D. from Caltech in Computer Science, Zehra worked at Bell Labs and Siemens Corporate Research. In academia, she has been teaching graduate level Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition courses to tens of students each year and has supervised 6 Ph.D. and 21 M.Sc. theses.
She has 18 patents and over 100 publications on theory of machine learning and its applications in finance, health, energy and transportation.
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği bölümü mezunu Recai Serdar Gemici, 1,5 yıllık ilaç sektörü deneyiminden sonra 4 yıl boyunca Siemens Strateji ve İş Geliştirme departmanında çalışmıştır. 2018 yılında Siemens'ten ayrılarak Albert Health'in kurucu ortağı oldu. Uluslararası hızlandırıcı programları Techstars ve Wayra'dan kabul olma başarısı gösteren girişim, toplamda 320.000 dolar yatırım almış ve birçok uluslararası ilaç şirketinin çözüm ortağı olmuştur. Recai Serdar Gemici, ayrıca 2019 yılında Forbes dergisi tarafından Türkiye'deki "30 altı 30" ilham veren gençler listesine seçilmiştir.
After receiving his Master's degree in Management Information Systems in 2009, he completed the Executive MBA Program in Istanbul University Institute of Business Economics in 2014. He still continues his doctorate studies at Istanbul Commerce University, Department of Industrial Policy and Technology Management. He has an experience over 20 years in one of the leading companies in medical sector, Varinak Oncology Systems, in different departments such as Technical Service, Information Systems, Sales and Marketing and after Varinak's acquisution by Varian Medical Systems in 2020, he is still working as Sales Manager in this company.
In addition to his professional business life, he mentors technology-based startups within TÜBİTAK and works as Project referee in Technoparks of some universities. As an active member of the All Entrepreneurs and Business Mentors Association, he works as an entrepreneurial mentor. He continues his research in this field with the trainings he received on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Data mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of the section "Artificial Intelligence applications in Radiation Oncology" in the book, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Technologies.
After graduating from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, he completed the Micro MBA program at Galatasaray University. He started his business life in the pneumatic, electro-pneumatic sector and in the sales field. Later, he continued his career as a professional manager in the Robotics, Machinery and Control systems sector. He took part in different change and development projects such as service and after-sales services in the institutions he worked for and worked as a manager.
In 2014, he was deemed worthy of the "Top Sales Person" award given globally by the FANUC company he still works for. He has been a member of the Bahçeşehir University Mechatronics Engineering advisory board since 2018. In 2020 and 2021, he was awarded the 40 CEOs of Turkey under the age of 40 by the Economist Magazine. Teoman Alper Yiğit has been working as the Country Manager responsible for Turkey and Azerbaijan at FANUC for the last 7 years.
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- Founding Member
- Energy Economist
Timur Topalgoekceli is an energy economist and entrepreneur. He founded and is currently Head of Hello Tomorrow in Turkey, where he is building the local arm of the global science and technology start-up initiative. His main focus is to accelerate the creation of a high-impact science entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey. Previously, Timur worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where he was a co-author of the annual World Energy Outlook, the IEA's flagship publication. He worked on supply side modelling and led the group's analysis of oil and gas upstream investment, cost and supply trends. In addition, he is co-author of the IEA's special reports on Iraq (2012), Brazil (2013), Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) and India (2015).
Prior to joining the IEA, Timur worked in Equity Research Sales at Standard & Poor's Investment Division, covering UK, French, German, Swiss and Eastern European markets. Having graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Timur has worked on energy projects in various positions, including at a JP Morgan Emerging Market Hedge Fund or Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus' Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In addition, he was selected as the only undergraduate to work with post-doctoral research fellows at the Science Po Paris Centre for European Studies on an economic feasibility study of competing European Southern Corridor gas supply projects.
As a member of Sandbox, a global network of 1,000 young leaders under 30, Timur has been actively engaging in the field of energy and technology start-ups. He is also a TEDx Speaker, international keynote speaker, university guest lecturer and a member of the jury of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge, Europe's largest science and technology start-up challenge. Timur was recently selected as an Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, alongside 20 rising global leaders selected from over 100 countries who will shape the twenty-first century. His specific fields of interest are energy storage and smart IoT technologies, in particular how to design energy systems that will bring about consumers' behaviour change with large-scale optimisation gains.
Toros Şahin graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and further received his master's degree from the same department. He also holds a master's degree in Health Economics from York University, England.
Throughout his career, Şahin has worked in different multinational companies in positions such as Business Development Specialist, Pricing Specialist, Pricing and Reimbursement Coordinator, Market Access and Health Economics Director. Şahin has been the Market Access and Corporate Affairs Director at Gilead Sciences Turkey since 2017.
Toros Şahin has taken part in and lead many working groups of the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies for more than 10 years.
Şahin, who is married and has a daughter, is not only supporting the efforts for the simultaneous access of patients in Turkey to new treatments made available for the first time in the world; but also involved in activities to ensure gender equality in business life.
Akkol started his career in 2002 as a Production and Productivity Engineer at Nautilus Foods, USA. Following this role, he started to work as a Human Resources Specialist at Koç Holding in 2003, in Turkey. Between the years of 2005 and 2009, he held roles such as Audit Specialist and Senior Auditor in the Audit Group of Koç Holding. During this time, he took part in the audits of Durable Goods Group, Central Audit Group and Energy Group companies. Afterwards, he transferred to the Human Resources function as a System Development and Human Resources Manager in 2009. Akkol was appointed as the System Development and Human Resources Coordinator in 2010 at Koç Holding. Between 2014-2021, he served as the Human Resources Director in the same organization. In 2021-2022, he held the role of Head of Human Resources and Industrial Relations. As of April 1, 2022, he became the President of Tourism, Food and Retail Group of Koç Holding.
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- Deputy Minister of Health